Monday, 5 March 2012

Cricket Australia charges Hayden for calling Harbhajan an "obnoxious weed"

Opener Matthew Hayden has been charged with breaching Cricket Australia's code of conduct for calling India offspinner Harbhajan Singh an "obnoxious weed" during a radio interview.

Cricket Australia spokesman Peter Young said Hayden broke the code of behavior "which prohibits detrimental public comment."

"Rule guidelines prohibit public denigration of other players against whom they have or will play," Young said in a statement released Wednesday.

A Code of Conduct commissioner was to be appointed later Wednesday to hear the charge against Hayden, a day after the 36-year-old batsman was voted Australia's …

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